Annotation of 43BSD/usr.lib/learn/editor/L43.1a, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: #print
                      2: Note that there is quite a list of special characters
                      3: recognized by the editor:
                      4:  . [ * ^ $ & /
                      5: What do you do when you want to specifically use
                      6: one of these characters as itself, rather than
                      7: for its funny meaning?  You must precede it by a backslash,
                      8: as in
                      9:   s/\./,/p
                     10: which will change the line
                     11:   x, y. and z
                     12: into
                     13:   x, y, and z
                     14: easily.  The same works for all the other special
                     15: characters.  What command would change
                     16:   *
                     17: into
                     18:   c
                     19: Type "answer COMMAND" where COMMAND is of the form
                     20:   s/.././p
                     21: #copyin
                     22: #user
                     23: #uncopyin
                     24: #match s/\*/c/p
                     25: #match s/\*/c/
                     26: You forgot the "p" on the end.
                     27: #log
                     28: #next
                     29: 44.1a 10

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